re: Expansion Options

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Fla-UGA-SC-Ky
Alabama-Auburn-Tenn- Vandy
LSU-Miss St-A&M-Ole Miss
Okla-USC-Missouri-Arkansas


Would be fun, and btw absolutely destroy UTexas, and no need to play anyone else. Obviously, travel/time zones/politics/ties would prevent USC.

Oklahoma should be in play, I don't get the OSU angle either - long term, the SEC would be OU's best option.

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Yeah, that's a lot of travel for USC. Football could swallow it without problem, but the other sports would be a disaster. Oklahoma makes sense, and quite possibly, the Sooners have some contacts in the A&M and Mizzou camps.

In fact, Oklahoma is one of the only prize schools around. Maybe there's a back-room deal in place to save the decent guys from the Big 12; in order to land Big Guy Oklahoma, you also need to take Medium Guy A&M and Little Guys Mizzou and ... are we SURE it's OSU? If so, do it over a couple years, as Oklahoma makes sure the SEC will honor it's word (unlike the Big 12), and take Mizzou. And you can't sell Mizzou by itself, so A&M came with them this season.

If so, commitment honored, and we might now see the bigger prize coming.

And in return, the Big 12 can fill it's slots from the old SWC roster: you still have Rice, SMU and Houston available, just begging to come home. And/or Tulane, which I noted above, can deliver games in the Superdome for Texas and the rest.